Not exact matches
The once - cosy relationship between the
state and federal political leaders
requires a delicate
balancing act in the wake of a new Labor government.
Legislators in a handful of oil - rich
states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this week:
balancing their budgets, as
required by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.
Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to
balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United
States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the
required specifications and quality; the risk we may be
required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.
[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to
require more voter approval for
state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in
state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to
balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden
State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in
State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.
(B) where the corporation is not
required to prepare audited accounts regularly, a
balance - sheet of the corporation certified by the corporation as giving a true and fair view of the
state of affairs of the corporation as of the date of the
balance - sheet, which date shall be within the preceding 12 months;
This scam, which is shown below,
states that Myetherwallet implemented an update for an «upcoming hard fork» and that they
require people to click on an enclosed link, unlock their account, and confirm their
balances.
The power shift that is under way in the Western Pacific
requires China, the United
States, and other regional actors to engage in sustained dialogue to establish a stable
balance of power.
However,
state constitutions generally
require balanced budgets, which can force countervailing changes in outlays and tax rules.
This leads
states into a perpetual power -
balancing mode, doing whatever their respective «national interest»
requires.
The effect of this is that the US
states have nearly all laws that
require them to have
balanced budgets and it is well followed.
A narrative description accompanying the amendments said Sheehan's office would be
required «to develop a comprehensive, long term financial plan that is structurally
balanced without reliance on continuing special
State assistance.»
Cuomo has also decried the lack of oversight of the SUNY Poly contracts for upstate development by the
state comptroller, among others, and has said he's turning all of the contracts over to his own Empire State Development authority, which routinely approves economic development projects where more checks and balances are requ
state comptroller, among others, and has said he's turning all of the contracts over to his own Empire
State Development authority, which routinely approves economic development projects where more checks and balances are requ
State Development authority, which routinely approves economic development projects where more checks and
balances are
required.
The unexpended
balance of each appropriation, less the commitments outstanding at the close of the fiscal year for which it was made, shall lapse at the close of such fiscal year; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to
require the lapsing of appropriations which may be or are
required to be made for an indefinite period or which include
state refunds, allocations or grants applicable to said appropriations pursuant to any other provisions of law; and provided further that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the making of appropriations or contracts for the construction of permanent public improvements or works not to be completed during the fiscal year, or the acquisition of property therefor, or the establishment of bond or capital accounts, sinking funds or reserve funds, and each such appropriation, account or fund shall continue in force until the purpose for which it was made shall have been accomplished or shall have been abandoned by a two thirds vote of the County Legislature.
Roger Benson, President of the New York
State Public Employees Federation (PEF) underscored the need for greater
balance: «The budget needs to have shared sacrifices but it does not
require any sacrifices from the wealthy and big business.»
The issue was, as it always is, the budget: a swollen $ 136 billion chimera that, $ 9.2 billion out of
balance, would
require massive cuts to education and health care spending and possible layoffs of
state workers, to say nothing of some tax increases.
The drive for an amendment to limit the Supreme Court's legislative apportionment decisions came within one
State of the
required number, and a proposal for a
balanced budget amendment has been but two
States short of the requisite number for some time.
«Such a scheme violates the fundamental checks - and -
balances principle that underlies our
state constitution, as it does not establish the independence required of a procurement watchdog and therefore will not achieve the real accountability and reform our State desperately n
state constitution, as it does not establish the independence
required of a procurement watchdog and therefore will not achieve the real accountability and reform our
State desperately n
State desperately needs.
Gene Cilento of the
state Department of Transportation said while the trucks may be a separate issue
requiring additional consideration, he said the I - 81 project is a
balancing act trying to benefit the most people while negatively impacting the fewest.
The Governor's office says Indiana is one of a handful of
states that does not
require a
balanced budget.
Under the New York
State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) process, the Town Board is
required to review the potential environmental effects of a project, identify the ways to mitigate the unavoidable impacts and
balance the environmental impacts with the benefits that will be achieved by the proposed project.
The
state requires a school district's reserve fund
balance not exceed 4 percent of the next year's actual spending.
The proposed spending plan would take $ 14 million from the district's fund
balance and borrow $ 3 million from future
state aid — and would still
require state legislators to provide the nearly $ 10 million aid boost.
Inducing a coma - like
state does
require careful monitoring, breathing and temperature support as well as a delicate
balance of «hypnotic agents, inhalational agents, opioids, muscle relaxants, sedatives and cardiovascular drugs,» Brown and his colleagues noted in their paper.
«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas
balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not
require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,»
states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.
The
balance of hormones changes over time, and each different stage of life will
require a different approach to keeping your body in a
state of optimal wellness.
For example, Smarter
Balanced's «Bias and Sensitivity Guidelines» point to the word foyer as unfair: «assuming a student knows what a «foyer» is would be unfair because the term: 1) is more likely to be known by some groups of students than by other groups of students, 2) is not
required by the Common Core
State Standards, and 3) is not likely to have been routinely used in the classroom.»
The Common Core
requires new assessments to measure student performance, with two primary options, each backed by a consortium of
states: PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) and the Smarter
Balanced Assessment.
This may actually reflect an additional explanation for how well schools have done in the past:
States are
required to have
balanced budgets, so they raise taxes when times are tight and then keep the new rates when the money flows again.
In its 5 - to - 4 decision, the court ruled that the
state legislature did not usurp the authority of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (bese) when it required that all schools present a «balanced treatment» of creationism and evolu
state legislature did not usurp the authority of the
State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (bese) when it required that all schools present a «balanced treatment» of creationism and evolu
State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (bese) when it
required that all schools present a «
balanced treatment» of creationism and evolution.
U.S. District Judge Adrian Duplantier said in his ruling that there can be no legitimate secular reason for the «
Balanced - Treatment for Creation - Science and Evolution - Science Act,» which the Louisiana legislature passed in 1981 to require the state's public schools to give balanced treatment to creationism if evolution is
Balanced - Treatment for Creation - Science and Evolution - Science Act,» which the Louisiana legislature passed in 1981 to
require the
state's public schools to give
balanced treatment to creationism if evolution is
balanced treatment to creationism if evolution is taught.
The board of education turned to the federal court on Sept. 13, as a 10 - day reprieve from the
state law
requiring Chicago schools to
balance their budget was running out.
To
balance the books,
states are
requiring increased employee contributions and are making vesting rules more stringent — using new teachers» paychecks to protect legacy payments to older colleagues.
With passage of the Local Control Funding Formula, California became the first
state to
require schools to consider how best to serve a small subset of at - risk students: youth in foster care.According to 2016 California Department of Education data, in English language arts, 56.2 percent of foster students did not meet standards on the Smarter
Balanced tests (compared to 30.5 percent of non-foster students) and for mathematics, 64 percent of foster students did not meet standards (compared to 37.3 percent of non-foster students).
Fitch said the district also will
require «a combination of tax increases, contributions from the
state and employee concessions» to
balance its budget.
Also, like many
states, Colorado is constitutionally
required to have a
balanced budget.
That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is
balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the
state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to
require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare» (emphasis added).
They strike the right
balance —
requiring states to adopt college - and - career standards but maintaining a position of neutrality on whether those
states should develop standards together or alone.
Every
state except Vermont has a
balanced budget amendment
requiring state legislators to spend no more money than they bring in as revenue.
This budget language has the effect of allowing school divisions to carry - over, for appropriation in fiscal year 2003,
state fund
balances for any Direct Aid to Public Education account with the exception of the SOL Algebra Readiness program and those
required to meet the Standards of Quality (i.e., Basic Aid, Textbooks, Vocational EducationSOQ, Gifted Education, Special EducationSOQ, Remedial EducationSOQ, VRS Retirement, Social Security, and VRS Group Life).
In two - thirds of the
state's community colleges, how students do on the 11th - grade Smarter
Balanced test will also help determine if they will be
required to first take English or math placement tests, or if they can directly enroll in credit - bearing math or English courses.
When it comes to the new Common Core standards for our schools, standards that Connecticut has adopted and standards are
requiring the
state's public school students to take the new Common Core Smarter
Balanced Assessment Test rather than the Connecticut Mastery Test, Kantrowitz goes where few others dare to tread.
The
state's nearly 1,000 school districts are embarking on a slew of new reforms — including the Common Core standards, the New Generation Science Standards, Smarter
Balanced assessments and focusing on several new «priority areas» specified in the
state's new school financing law — that will
require a highly trained and enthusiastic workforce to ensure their success.
The
state's position on the Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium test has been clear: federal and
state laws
require the districts to give the test to all students in grades 3 through 8 and in eleventh grade.
It has had the nation's most venerable and strongest
state law prohibiting racially segregated schooling and
requiring racial
balance in the schools whenever feasible.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced Thursday that he would
require school districts to offer the Common Core practice tests, created by the Smarter
Balanced states» consortium, in both math and English language arts next spring.
Instead of keeping the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) as part of the
state's flawed teacher evaluation program, the proposed law would have
required Connecticut to adopt a system that is based on the real factors that determine whether a teacher is successfully doing their job in the classroom.
It is against
state law for a Connecticut school district to
require a student to take or pass the Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test in order to graduate.
Beginning in the 2014 - 15 school year, Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarted
Balanced) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) will begin administering Common Core based assessments that will in most cases be replacing previously administered paper - pencil Scantron - based,
state -
required exams in over 40
states.
Congress, in passing the Every Student Succeeds Act in December,
required that
states build their school evaluation systems using three common metrics: high school graduation rates; progress of English learners in becoming proficient in English, and achievement in English language arts and math, for which California will use the results of the Smarter
Balanced tests in grades 3 - 8 and 11.
Also, while the Smarter
Balanced field test plan allows for a 12 - week test administration window, I suspect it is not widely known that CA - specific plans for the 2014 field test
require shorter test administration windows for each school — 3 - week windows as assigned by the CA - specific «Field Test Participation Plan» that was first made public as part of
state board agenda materials on Nov 6.